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The document outlines the key components of assessing, preventing, and overcoming reading difficulties, covering various skills such as phonological awareness, phonics, word identification, and reading comprehension. It also discusses effective prevention strategies and intervention approaches for addressing reading difficulties, including case illustrations and guidelines for identifying reading disabilities. The book serves as a comprehensive resource for educators and professionals working with struggling readers.
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Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties, 1st Edition Full Digital Edition

The document outlines the key components of assessing, preventing, and overcoming reading difficulties, covering various skills such as phonological awareness, phonics, word identification, and reading comprehension. It also discusses effective prevention strategies and intervention approaches for addressing reading difficulties, including case illustrations and guidelines for identifying reading disabilities. The book serves as a comprehensive resource for educators and professionals working with struggling readers.
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Issues in Assessing Phonological Skills
Phonological Awareness Assessment
Phonological Blending Assessment
The Rationale for Assessing Rapid Automatized Naming and
Working Memory
Summary
Chapter Seven: Assessing Phonics Skills
Orthographic Knowledge
Assessing Phonics Skills
Summary
Chapter Eight: Assessing Word Identification and Reading
Fluency
The Assessment of Word-Reading Skills
Untangling the Confound Between Word Recognition and
Word Identification
Word Identification Subtests
The Assessment of Word-Reading Fluency
Types of Fluency Tasks
Summary
Chapter Nine: Assessing Reading Comprehension and Related
Skills
Reading Comprehension Assessment
Tests of Reading Comprehension
Tests of Listening Comprehension
Assessment of Skills That Contribute to Reading
Comprehension and Listening Comprehension
Summary
Chapter Ten: Effective Approaches for Preventing Reading
Difficulties
Prevention: Removing the Hurdles Before the Race Begins
Experimental Support for Phonological Awareness Instruction
Experimental Support for Explicit and Systematic Letter-
Sound Instruction
Practical Considerations Regarding Teaching Letter-Sound
Skills and Phonics
The Centrality of Phonology in Word Reading
Phonological Awareness Training Programs
Preventing Literacy-Related Language Difficulties
Summary
Chapter Eleven: Effective Approaches for Overcoming or
Minimizing Reading Difficulties
Intervention with Word-Level Reading Difficulties
Popular Reading Interventions With Modest or Minimal
Results
Reading Intervention Research With Minimal to Modest
Results
The Phonological Awareness Intervention Continuum
Reading Intervention Studies with Highly Successful Results
Specific Programs Used in Highly Successful Outcome Studies
Addressing Comprehension Difficulties
Making It Work: Practical Intervention Issues
Summary
Chapter Twelve: Case Illustrations
Mild Dyslexic Pattern
Severe Dyslexic Pattern
ELL Student
Compensator Pattern
Hyperlexic Type
Summary
Chapter Thirteen: Reading Difficulties and Learning Disability
Identification
Far Fewer Students with SLD?
Characteristics That Suggest an Educational Disability—Part
1: SLD in Word-Level Reading
Characteristics That Suggest an Educational Disability—Part
2: Reading Comprehension
General Guidelines for Identifying a Reading Disability
Summary
Afterword
Glossary
Further Reading
References
About the Author
About the Online Resources
Content Included in the Online Resources
Index
End User License Agreement

List of Illustrations
Chapter Two: How We Teach Reading and Why It Does Not Work
With Struggling Readers
Figure 2.1 Terminology Related to Word-Level Reading
Figure 2.2 A Sampling of Some of the Many Possible Visual
Forms of “Reading”
Chapter Three: A Practical Framework for Understanding and
Assessing Reading Skills
Figure 3.1 English Words in Non-English Scripts
Figure 3.2 Two Questions to Consider When Students Display
Reading Comprehension Difficulties
Figure 3.3 Types of Reading Difficulties Organized Under the
Simple View of Reading
Figure 3.4 Common Skill Pattern of Compensating Readers
(Mean Performances)
Figure 3.5 Reading and Its Components Based on the Original
Formulation of the Simple View of Reading
Figure 3.6 A Sample of a Rapid Naming Task With Digits
Figure 3.7 Word-Level Reading in an Expanded Simple View
of Reading
Figure 3.8 The Components of Linguistic Comprehension in
an Expanded Simple View of Reading
Chapter Four: Understanding Word Recognition Difficulties
Figure 4.1 Skills Involved in Letter-Name and Letter-Sound
Knowledge
Figure 4.2 Phonic Decoding. The contribution of letter-sound
knowledge and phonological blending to activate the spoken
form of words
Figure 4.3 The Orthographic Mapping/Sight Word Learning
Process. Sounds in the phonological lexicon map onto letters
via phoneme awareness/analysis to produce an orthographic
memory of written words
Figure 4.4 The Orthographic Mapping Process. Whole-word
pronunciations are phonemically analyzed and then
connected with printed letter strings
Chapter Six: Assessing Phonological Processing Skills
Figure 6.1 A Comparison of Four Phonological Awareness
Subtests with 67 Students in the Winter/Spring of First Grade
Figure 6.2 A Comparison of Four Phonological Awareness
Subtests with 50 Students in the Winter/Spring of Second
Grade
Chapter Ten: Effective Approaches for Preventing Reading
Difficulties
Figure 10.1 Developmental Teaching Hierarchy for
Phonological Awareness Skills
List of Tables
Chapter Two: How We Teach Reading and Why It Does Not Work
With Struggling Readers
Table 2.1 What the Three Classic Reading Approaches Have to
Say (or Not Say) About Word Identification Versus Word
Recognition
Chapter Four: Understanding Word Recognition Difficulties
Table 4.1 The Most Common English Words That Contain
More Than One Irregular Letter-to-Sound Correspondence
Chapter Eight: Assessing Word Identification and Reading
Fluency
Table 8.1 The Type of Lines a Student Sees on the TOSWRF-2
Representing Three Levels of Difficulty (None Are Actual
Lines From the Test)
Chapter Ten: Effective Approaches for Preventing Reading
Difficulties
Table 10.1 Comparisons of Groupings in the Bradley and
Bryant (1983), Ball and Blachman (1988) and Cunningham
(1990) Studies
Chapter Twelve: Case Illustrations
Table 12.1 List of Abbreviations for Tests
Table 12.2 Eugene—November of Grade 2 (2003)
Table 12.3 Karen—May of Grade 6 (2011)
Table 12.4 Tim—June of Grade 8 (2010)
Table 12.5 Jim—December of Grade 6 (2010)
Table 12.6 Sean—September of Grade 3 (2005)
Table 12.7 Norma—May of Grade 6 (2009)
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by Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger, Debra Broadbooks, and Alan S.
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by Nancy Mather and Barbara J. Wendling
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by Barbara J. Wendling and Nancy Mather
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by George McCloskey and Lisa A. Perkins
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by Marc J. Ackerman
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by Guy McBride, Ron Dumont, and John O. Willis
Essentials of Individual Achievement Assessment
by Douglas K. Smith
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by Alan S. Kaufman, Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger, Elaine Fletcher-
Janzen, and Nadeen L. Kaufman
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by Stephen Strack
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by Robert P. Archer and Radhika Krishnamurthy
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by David S. Nichols
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Edition
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by Sally L. Kemp and Marit Korkman
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by Nancy Hebben and William Milberg
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by Steve McCallum, Bruce Bracken, and John Wasserman
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by Leslie C. Morey
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Unique Learners
edited by Jennifer T. Mascolo, Vincent C. Alfonso, and Dawn P.
Flanagan
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by Milton J. Dehn
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by Gale H. Roid and R. Andrew Barram
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Edition
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by Diana Joyce
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by Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger and Alan S. Kaufman
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by Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger and Kristina C. Breaux
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by Dawn P. Flanagan and Alan S. Kaufman
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Edition
by Fredrick A. Schrank, Daniel C. Miller, Barbara J. Wendling, and
Richard W. Woodcock
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by Nancy Mather and Barbara J. Wendling
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